First European colonizers thanksgiving. Indigenous peoples celebrate fall harvest with thanksgiving and have done so for thousands and thousands of years.
Are those persimons by the turkey?
Looks that way. Makes sense, they’re a fall harvest fruit.
I know Thomas Jefferson opposed the idea of thanksgiving because he thought it was too religious adjacent.
Washington felt differently and issued a Thanksgiving proclamation, and its 200th anniversary in 1989 is when George H. W. Bush turned the White House turkey handover, running since Truman got the first bird in 1947, into a formal pardon. I wrote up that and a dozen other angles on the turkey here: https://youpick.best/articles/turkey-ranked-many-ways
Based TJ moment.
Bogged down by all the other horrible things he did but at least he made a copy of the bible that cut out all the wizard bullshit.
Yeah, he had his ups and downs; but being anti-religion was a cool
